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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today
“If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains] inspires, discomforts,...
“If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains] inspires, discomforts,...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
With the right lifestyle, experts say, chances are that you may live up to a decade longer. What's the prescription for success? National Geographic Explorer Dan Buettner has traveled the globe to uncover the best strategies for longevity found in the Blue Zones: places in the world where higher percentages of people enjoy remarkably long, full lives. And in this dynamic book he discloses the recipe, blending this unique lifestyle formula with the...
Author
Series
Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Cassandra Dell Winston recounts her life as the wife of a physician on the frontier.
Author
Series
Dr. Harry Kent novels volume 2
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
After a suspended whistle blower at a hospital is found dead in an apparent suicide, medical examiner Dr. Harry Kent and detective Frankie Noble discover that she was actually murdered and try to unlock the secrets that led to her death.
45) Scarpetta
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Leaving behind her Charleston forensic pathology practice to accept an assignment in New York City, Kay Scarpetta learns the story of an injured psychiatric patient who claims he was attacked by a stalker who was killing someone else at the time.
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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Language
English
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Jody Berger has discovered this first hand: at forty-three, the award-winning journalist and marathoner sees a doctor about a minor tingling sensation in her hands and feet. One MRI later, she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and told to pick a drug and accept her fate. Instead Jody starts asking questions--only to receive a different diagnosis from each specialist she turns to, from vitamin deficiencies to metal toxicity to depression. In this...
Author
Publisher
Little Brown & Co
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That's the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator. In this gripping, intimate memoir about health, illness, and the invisible reverberating effects of our medical system, Standefer recounts the astonishing true story of the rare diagnosis that upended her rugged life in the mountains...
49) Medical myths that can kill you: and the 101 truths that will save, extend, and improve your life
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Language
English
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Do you know what’s really good for you?
In this age of countless miracle cures, it’s vital to separate the myths that endanger your health from the medical facts you need.
FACT:
Unfiltered coffee can clog your arteries.
FACT:
Donating blood may lower your risk of heart disease.
FACT:
You don’t really need eight glasses of water a day.
FACT:
Coughing won’t help if you’re having a heart...
In this age of countless miracle cures, it’s vital to separate the myths that endanger your health from the medical facts you need.
FACT:
Unfiltered coffee can clog your arteries.
FACT:
Donating blood may lower your risk of heart disease.
FACT:
You don’t really need eight glasses of water a day.
FACT:
Coughing won’t help if you’re having a heart...
Author
Series
Will Trent series volume 10
Language
English
Description
"When a battered young woman is left for dead, a prisoner in the state penitentiary points out that the attack closely resembles the one for which he was convicted-and which he insists he didn't commit. Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Will Trent enlists the help of his girlfriend, medical examiner Sara Linton, to investigate the new case in light of the older one."
54) Cause of death
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When lives are on the line, dedicated doctors, nurses, and staff of Chicago's busiest trauma center are the ones to trust. In the engrossing second season, big changes put the ER on an emotional collision course. A slew of both professional and personal issues, from legal setbacks to romantic entanglements, illnesses, and the elusive work-life balance-threaten to affect those trying to maintain cutting-edge medicine with care and compassion.
Author
Series
Will Trent series volume 9
Language
English
Description
WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC!
Karin Slaughter, the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her, brings back Will Trent and Sara Linton in this superb and timely thriller full of devious twists, disturbing secrets, and shocking surprises you won't see coming
A mysterious kidnapping
On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants
...Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
"From one of the world's foremost physicians and researchers, a monumental work that radically redefines our conventional conceptions of health and illness to offer new methods for living a long, healthy life. After considering the discoveries that haveled to progress in treating some diseases, Dr. David B. Agus asked an essential question: Why aren't we better at curing illnesses like cancer? Based on his groundbreaking research and the clinical...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A look at the lives of the real nurses depicted in the PBS show Mercy Street.
Heroines of Mercy Street tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia, mansion turned war-time hospital and setting for the PBS drama Mercy Street. Among the Union soldiers, doctors, wounded men from both sides, freed slaves, politicians, speculators, and spies who passed through the hospital in the crossroads...
Heroines of Mercy Street tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia, mansion turned war-time hospital and setting for the PBS drama Mercy Street. Among the Union soldiers, doctors, wounded men from both sides, freed slaves, politicians, speculators, and spies who passed through the hospital in the crossroads...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder returns with the extraordinary true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. After surviving a civil war and genocide, he ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he begins to meet the strangers who will change his life, pointing him eventually in the direction...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Gregory House still has the most unapologetically prickly bedside manner ever, but his genius for solving the medical mysteries other practitioners can't has earned him the respect of his team. House's unpredictable cases, from killer germs to killer secrets, strain his already tenuous relationship with his co-workers and put his own health at risk."--Container.
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